middling
Definitions
Noun
- Any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
Verb
- Put in the middle
Adverb
- To a moderately sufficient extent or degree
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Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "middling".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | improving | 3 | 16 |
| 2 | managing | 3 | 8 |
| 3 | impinging | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | embracing | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | impending | 3 | 4 |
| 6 | meddling | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | menacing | 3 | 4 |
| 8 | embodying | 4 | 3 |
| 9 | maturing | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | emanating | 4 | 2 |
| 11 | imitating | 4 | 2 |
| 12 | impressing | 3 | 2 |
| 13 | maddening | 3 | 2 |
| 14 | motioning | 3 | 2 |
| 15 | smoldering | 3 | 2 |
| 16 | imagining | 4 | 1 |
| 17 | imploring | 3 | 1 |
| 18 | massaging | 3 | 1 |
| 19 | mastering | 3 | 1 |
| 20 | modeling | 3 | 1 |
| 21 | muddling | 3 | 1 |
| 22 | mustering | 3 | 1 |
| 23 | amortizing | 4 | 0 |
| 24 | embarking | 3 | 0 |
| 25 | immolating | 4 | 0 |
| 26 | impacting | 3 | 0 |
| 27 | imparting | 3 | 0 |
| 28 | imploding | 3 | 0 |
| 29 | importing | 3 | 0 |
| 30 | impounding | 3 | 0 |
| 31 | impugning | 3 | 0 |
| 32 | machining | 3 | 0 |
| 33 | maundering | 3 | 0 |
| 34 | meat-eating | 3 | 0 |
| 35 | mentoring | 3 | 0 |
| 36 | meriting | 3 | 0 |
| 37 | messaging | 3 | 0 |
| 38 | mimicking | 3 | 0 |
| 39 | mongering | 3 | 0 |
| 40 | monkeying | 3 | 0 |
| 41 | mottling | 3 | 0 |
| 42 | muscling | 3 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "middling".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smiling | 2 | 36 |
| 2 | milling | 2 | 18 |
| 3 | mailing | 2 | 8 |
| 4 | kidding | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | bidding | 2 | 7 |
| 6 | meddling | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | idling | 3 | 2 |
| 8 | ridding | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | piddling | 3 | 1 |
| 10 | muddling | 3 | 1 |
| 11 | fiddling | 2 | 1 |
| 12 | madding | 2 | 1 |
| 13 | twiddling | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | sidling | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | ridling | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | mindlin | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | minding | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | milking | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | midline | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | iddings | 2 | 0 |
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "middling" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
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Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "middling" in a sentence.
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Words that are statistically associated with "middling" in the same piece of text.
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Results:
Term
Definitions: 3
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 42
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 2
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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